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How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
Executive producer Pippa Harris and writer Heidi Thomas both faced fertility issues.
- How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
- Nigel Kennedy on The Four Seasons
- John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity
- Kazuo Ishiguro on remembering and forgetting in The Buried Giant
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- Meera Syal on The House of Hidden Mothers
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- Halcyon Halston days: William Banks-Blaney on the first super-designer
- Oxfam's Mark Goldring calls for a new Magna Carta
- The Mozart Question: Michael Morpurgo, Daniel Pioro and the Storyteller's Ensemble
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